Family Group of Jesse Hardy

JESSE HARDY ( Moses, Jacob, Thomas, Thomas ) was born August 22, 1777 in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and died December 12, 1846 in Hoskinsville, Noble County, Ohio. He married BRIDGET REED September 29, 1798, daughter of JOHN REED.

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Time Line for Jesse Hardy: ... developed from research data

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"The maternal grandfather was Jesse Hardy, who was a native of Scotland, but had emigrated to this country, and spent the greater part of his life in the New England States. Late in life he removed to Noble County OH and there died when past 75 years of age. His occupation had also been a farmer. His wife was Bridget Reed, who came of Scotch-Irish descent, and whose father, John Reed, served throughout the Revolutionary War, and was one of the patriots who threw the tea into Boston Harbor. He was in a great many battles, but was never wounded, and lived to an extreme old age, being more than 100 at the time of his demise. "   1

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Moved to Wayne County, New York about 1823/24. In 1829 they started by steamboat on the Erie Canal for Ohio. It took two weeks to make it to Cleveland. Jesse Hardy was a prosperous farmer and prominent citizen of Noble County, Ohio. Jesse died at Hoskinsville, Ohio 12 Dec 1846; his wife Bridget died at Hoskinsville 19 June 1862.   2

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Hoskinsville is in Noble Township, which was organized in 1819 and which remained a part of Morgan County until the creation of Noble County in 1851. The village was platted in 1839 and named for Colonel Erastus Hoskins, its first postmaster, who had come to Ohio from Connecticut.

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Time Line for Bridget Reed ... developed from research data

Children of JESSE HARDY and BRIDGET REED

1. LYDIA ANN HARDY, b. February 13, 1801, Wayne County, New York; d. July 14, 1838, Arcadia, Wayne County, New York; m. JOHN HOWLAND, Abt. 1817, Phillips Township, Somerset County, Maine.
    
2. BETSY HARDY, b. March 30, 1808, Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine; m. SIDNEY WOODWORTH.
    
3. MOSES D. HARDY, b. June 22, 1816, Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine; d. Hoskinsville, Noble County, Ohio; m. HANNAH WESTCOTT.
    

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